Slotting Damage Auras

How do you guys slot damage auras like Lightning Field, Blazing Aura, and Death Shroud?

I've just started a fire brute and an electric tank and am wondering how to properly slot Blazing Aura and Lightning Field.

Damage auras do pretty good total damage over time since they are slowly ticking away at everything near you, but their actual damage values per target are pretty low. Adding a SO's worth of damage to Blazing Aura only boosts your damage per 10 seconds by around 15 points per target at level 50. Adding a damage proc adds a 20% chance to do around 72 damage every 10 seconds, which also averages out to nearly 15 damage per 10 seconds. That means that as soon as ED starts kicking in (around 70% enhancement) a proc is more valuable than more damage since the two are about even before ED.

Since damage auras are such endurance hogs I would not recommend slotting Obliteration or Eradication, even if you need defense... those sets are horrible for endurance. Multi-Strike is a perfectly decent option if you want to keep costs down, but for maximum effect I'd go with:

Scirocco's Dervish Acc/Dam, Acc/Dam/End, and Dam/End
Multi-Strike Acc/End
Scirocco's Dervish Chance for Lethal Damage
Eradication Chance for Energy Damage

That gives you excellent accuracy and endurance, over 2 SOs worth of damage, and two procs. You also get a 10% regen bonus and 9% accuracy. You can also skip the Eradication proc and save a slot (or skip both procs and still have decent slotting).

I'm a fan off only having 3 extra slots in Damage Auras, figure frankenslotting them for max benefit is better than just aiming for set bonuses.

I usually slot:
2 Dam/End
2 Dam/End/Acc

On SOs I normally 6 slot with 2 Acc, 2 Dam, 2 End.

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how about in a spine/ anythign with another damage aura?

how much more valuable are the procs there when there can be multiples going off at once?

Always try and max out end redux first then some good acc and damage, basically what everyone else said.

Although if you go with cardiac slot then you can get buy with less end redux if you need the set bonus.

This would be if you want to increase energy/negative defense then 3 slot Eradication or if you are trying to increase your negative Resistance then 3 slot Scirocco's Dervish.

I have the above for my stone/ss tank as this helps me soft cap energy/negative defense and almost cap negative Resistance. Just a goal I was working on but its not needed on stone.

Obliteration and the purple set both lack enough end redux unless you only 5 slot with the set and add in the 6th slot as a end redux, or like on my electric brute I can get by with less end redux due to having power sink up fairly often.

SO's: 3 Damage, 2 EndRed, 1 Acc.

For Frankenslotting or Sets, whatever gets you capped damage and lots of endred.

Damage Auras put out a underappreciated crapton of damage. Take it, slot it, love it.

On a tank or brute, I like to frankenslot a lot of +Acc into my aura since I think the taunt only applies if the damage connects. Not sure about that, though.

Grabbing the Multi Strike set at level 30 is a great solution; it's pretty cheap and it will serve you well all the way to 50. Yeah, the bonuses aren't huge but the enhancement values are good; nice accuracy, damage and a bunch of endred for not a lot more than you'd spend on SO's.

I wouldn't slot the Armageddon proc in a damage aura unless you don't have any other PBAoE's and have a slot to spare.

Procs activate slowly in auras (every 10 seconds). use only if well-frankenslotted and have slot(s) left over.

Multistrike is decent for positional defense. If not going for positional defense, or if you're already soft-capped, frankenslot. On SOs, 2 end, 1 acc, 3 damage; but frankenslotting is cheap and easy (well, it used to be cheap) and very effective.

Damage auras are a good thing over the long term; don't skimp on slotting them.

Pro tip: every toggle power that does damage is a very efficient use of your animation time. People spend billions to shave their attack chains down to eliminate tenths of a second, and people are always lobbying to have their favorite click attack power's animation time reduced...but damage auras never use any in-combat animation time at all. The ultimate in efficient use of time -- you can even do damage with them if you're standing there trying to figure out what else to click. You can literally kill things while AFK.

On a related subject, what about dmg procs in auras that normally aren't damaging? Can you slot the, er .. I think it's Glimpse of the Abyss that has a dmg proc, into Cloak of Fear (for example) when going the multi-dmg-proc route?

Or is the slot not worth the payoff, in general?

Totally up to you if you need the set bonuses but I usually 4 slot them with 2 Nucleolus Exposure Hami O's and 2 End Redux IO's. Saves you 2 slots to put elsewhere and boosts the major parts you will need to boost.